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Call Mordecai:
(520) 825-6743
Born in 1935 and raised in Brooklyn, New York, I attended Brooklyn College for two years and
graduated from Parsons School of Design, Graphic Design Department, in 1957, where I studied
painting and drawing under Stephen Greene and Fred Koenigsberg.
After a career as a Graphic Designer, I moved to Tucson in March 2005. It is the culmination of
a long held dream…living surrounded by the beauty of the Catalina Mountains, near some of my
children and grandchildren, with the time and space to express some of my ideas for painting
and sculpture.
A few years before leaving N.Y., I started a series of works I call “Visual Midrash” wherein I
take a phrase or scene from Torah and express it as a visual commentary. I have continued to create
“Visual Midrash” in Tucson and have also done landscapes of the Catalinas and branched out into
purely abstract works.
I have exhibited at the Tucson Jewish Community Center with the Jewish Artist’s Guild and at
several Israel Art Fairs, as well as at the Turquoise Bull Gallery in Catalina, with SAAG
(Southern AZ Artists Guild), at Pima County Chamber of Commerce auction at
The El Conquistador Hotel and at their group show at Toscana Gallery. I also exhibited at the Desert
Museum where 2 of my paintings were sold at auction to benefit the museum.
Below are some paintings currently on exhibit at Gallery 2402 in Tucson, Arizona.
